Re: Maulana Tariq Jameel
There are a number of incidents related to him, I would like to share few incidents here.
A man's car was stolen in Karachi. In the evening he got a call that his car is parked near a specific patrol pump and he can take it from there. The man was surprised, and asked, " Why did you decide to give it back, after you stole it ?"
The reply was, " While we were driving the car, we decided to listen to music on tape recoder, but there was some person who was talking about Islam. After listening to him for sometime we decided to return the car."
The person speaking was Maulana Tariq Jameel
I saw few people on Istanbul airport with noorani faces and appearance very close to the way of sunnah. I asked them (in urdu) if they knew Maulana Tariq Jamil as I thought they were from tableeghi jamaat. They said "Sorry, only Arabic and english, we are from UAE"
When I repeated myself in english, they said, " Ohh...he is a GREAT scholar with a lot of knowledge, why did you ask ?"
I said, "I thought that you might be from Pakistan and know him "
They said, " Is he from Pakistan ? we didn't know that."
Note: Maulana sahab is very popular in arab countries among the arabs, note that most arabs don't easily get impressed from a non arab religious scholar.